Interviews

Jason Kelly
Known for his Neatest Little Guide To Stock Market Investing and for his investment newsletter, J


English major would make a better bet than a computer science major, when it came to writing about technology.
A manager who made the hiring decision explained why he went out on a limb for me: “Technology can be taught easily, the craft of writing cannot. We’ll put the tech knowledge into your head. You be sure the good writing comes out your fingertips.

- Japanese view on healthcare reform
The long amount of time it took the US populace to realize the pointlessness of the Iraq war, for example, took about a week in Japan. When the US health-care reform effort began a year ago, Japan skipped the hope phase and went straight to the realization that the latest effort would fail like previous ones because the US government is controlled by corporations, and health-care corporations don’t want reform. End of analysis, case closed, and it was dead-on accurate. No long discussions, no screaming heads on TV, no illusions of any new political leader being actually new. I find that brutally honest way of dissecting issues to be clarifying.